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He has pushed through modest reforms of energy and education.

Mr Calderón settled for only modest reforms, of energy, education, pensions and the public finances.

The modest reforms of the 1960s, including a partial legalisation of homosexuality, were pushed by the government of Harold Wilson in the absence of much popular demand.

Indeed, his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, says that, after implementing (modest) reforms of state pensions and health-insurance, the hard part is now over.

His government has managed modest reforms of education and health care, and has started paying a benefit to more than 200,000 poor families.

But Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner said the president was proposing "modest reforms" of the US tax code that would make the system "more fair" and help tackle the budget deficit.

Yet so powerful is the sugar lobby in Brussels -- representing not just farmers, but also monopolistic processing companies -- that the crop was excluded from the European Union's recent modest reform of its $50-billion-a-year 50-billion-a-year 50-billion-a-year 50-billion-a-year

The European Commission, the union's executive body, has been pushing a modest reform of farm policy aimed at ending the link between payments to farmers and their actual production levels.

Neema Singh Giuliani of the ACLU said the poll results show a "disconnection" between anti-surveillance fervor by voters and a congressional debate bounded by retained surveillance powers at one pole and what she described as the "modest reform" of the USA Freedom Act on the other.

In a major speech Friday on the future of the National Security Agency, President Barack Obama announced a series of modest reforms to the way the agency does business.

Her government is also likely to take on a range of modest reforms to encourage greater private-sector investment in large infrastructure projects.